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Signature displayed wrong in New Outlook on Mac
When creating a new e-mail, my signature is displayed in Times New Roman (?) instead of the default font. In the Signature editor, the display is correct. In Sent, the mail is displayed correctly as well.
Signature editor:
New email:
Outlook version:
16.110
Mac M4
Mac OS 26.5.1
Because the signature is correct in Sent Items, do not rebuild it yet. Check whether Outlook is composing in a different appearance mode: temporarily set Outlook's appearance to Light and disable any message-background/theme option, then create a new message. If the preview changes while Sent Items remain correct, it is a compose-window rendering defect. Capture that comparison with the Outlook and macOS version for Microsoft support.
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Because the signature is correct in Sent Items, do not rebuild it yet. Check whether Outlook is composing in a different appearance mode: temporarily set Outlook's appearance to Light and disable any message-background/theme option, then create a new message. If the preview changes while Sent Items remain correct, it is a compose-window rendering defect. Capture that comparison with the Outlook and macOS version for Microsoft support.
Setting the appearance mode from System to Light and then to System (= Dark) again actually solved the problem. Thank you!
This seems to be par for the course for the new vibe-code enabled Microsoft. Breaking features which have worked perfectly well for the last five years...
I just installed 16.110.3 and the problem still exists.
I can confirm the issue and add some more information:
Changing to Current (Preview) or Beta Update Channel in 16.110.1 changes the displayed "default" font from Times New Roman 12pt to Aptos 12pt. This may look like a fix to the thread owner but still ignores the font family and size set in the Signature editor.
On the receiving end there is mostly Aptos 12pt displayed execpt for answering on Windows New Outlook or on the web. Here the original Signature uses Segoe UI.
Maybe the intention was to "use a default font for every signature" but the diffrent environments use different fonts. Even if done correctly this should only aply to Signatures using the default font and not overwrite the font settings changed by the user.Can you check whether an update to 16.110.1 (released yesterday) will fix this issue already?
There was an issue in 16.110 which caused Outlook not to properly recognize the sections within an email and didn't include things because of that. That should be fixed now.
Unfortunately, the issue still exists in 16.110.1 - I just updated, no change.
